The trail of gold and silver mining in Colorado, 1859-2009 / Duane A. Smith.
Details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these p...
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| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colo. :
University Press of Colorado,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Pike's Peak or bust
- 2. 1859: The year dreams became reality
- 3. 1860-1864: To everything there is a season
- 4. 1864-1869: Good times a-comin, someday
- 5. 1870-1874: Bonanza! Three cheers and a tiger
- 6. 1875-1880: All roads lead to Leadville
- 7. The silver eighties: the best of times, the worst of times
- 8. There'll be a hot time
- 9. The everlasting love of the game
- Photographic essay: Nineteenth-century Colorado mining
- 10. 1900-1929: Looking forward into yesterday
- 11. Mucking through Depression, war, and new ideas
- 12. Mining on the docket of public opinion: the environmental age
- Photographic essay: Colorado mining in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Epilogue: A tale well told
- Notes
- Bibliographical essay
- Index.